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...reminiscent of the 1920s. Aboard the three ships of the San Francisco-based Royal Viking Line, which are among the few that still make extravagant, 100-day round-the- world cruises, passengers frequently don tuxedoes and evening gowns. Perhaps the most luxurious ships of all are Cunard's Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II, on which a crew of 79 attends to just 116 passengers (daily rate: $600 a person...
Similarly, Dunaway's Wanda is a genuinely convincing waste case. She also manages the difficult feat of justifying Henry's initial impression of her as "some kind of distressed goddess." She doesn't overdo her star quality, either, avoiding the seductive trap of a 1940s melodrama performance. Even lines like "We're all in hell. And the madhouses are the only places where people know they're in hell" aren't too offensive coming from her--she has a sincerely manic edge to her that justifies her triteness...
...Indian press and public reacted in horror. Said the national daily Indian Express: "A barbarous and primitive act." Women's groups protested, and the Rajasthan high court banned further ceremonies at the site. But to some people, Kanwar had become a goddess. Pilgrims thronged to the village of Deorala, 47 miles northeast of Jaipur, to pay homage. Last week hundreds of thousands of people converged on the site for ceremonies marking the end of the 13-day mourning period. The pyre, which had been kept smoldering with ghee (clarified butter) and coconuts, was decorated with a flower-bedecked silk canopy...
...laws, who by tradition would have been required to care for her the rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess). A shrine commemorating the widow will be built at the suttee site. More than $160,000 has already been contributed by devotees...
...match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...